What show was a spin-off of The Cosby Show and took place on a college campus?
What is A Different World
100
In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment?
What is Brown Vs. Board of Education
100
What actor won the 2005 Oscar for his performance in “Ray?”
Who is Jamie Foxx
100
In 1968, what Civil Rights leader was assassinated while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel?
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King
200
Who was the the first African American to serve as a supreme court justice?
Who is Thurgood Marshall
200
Who was known as the Black Thomas Edison?
Who is Granville T. Woods
200
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for president?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
200
Which author received a special Pulitzer prize for his novel “Roots?”
Who is Alex Haley
200
Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Who is Malcolm X
300
Who was the first African American female millionaire?
Who is Madame C.J. walker
300
In August of 1965, a six-day riot occurred after a conflict between Blacks and Whites in what section of Los Angeles?
What is Watts
300
This man filled in the seat of Thurgood Marshall in the US Supreme Court
Who is Clarence Thomas
300
Born In Memphis, TN, whose father was a Baptist Minister? This lady would earn the Nick Name “Queen of Soul.”
Who is Aretha Franklin
300
What is the name of the 14 year-old that was brutally murdered in Money, MS., in 1955 for speaking to a white woman?
Who is Emmett Till
400
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
400
What southern slave state was the last to abolish slavery?
What is Georgia
400
During Reconstruction, what state boasted a black majority in its legislature?
What is South Carolina
400
Who is the self-proclaimed “Architect, Creator, Emancipator, Inventor, Originator and King of Rock and Roll?”
Who is Little Richard
400
What Amendment ratified on February 3, 1870 prohibited the government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color or previous condition of servitude"?
What is the Fifteenth Amendment
500
Who was the first African American Rhodes Scholar?
Who is Alain Locke
500
In 1971 the "Free Angela" movement spread across the U.S. Who was Angela?
Who is Angela Davis
500
In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
What is Loving v. Virginia (1967)
500
By 1773, what internationally known published poet wrote a poem entitled “To His Excellency General Washington,”
Who is Philis Wheatley
500
Name one of the three men murdered in Meridian, Mississippi while attempting to get Blacks registered to vote.
Who is James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, or Michael Swartz